Degrees Quotes
2028 quotes by 1526 authors
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Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong,…
— Arnold Hiatt
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The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary…
— John Dalton
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Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation…
— Robert Stawell Ball
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The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
— Dante Alighieri
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In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave…
— Justus von Liebig
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One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.
— Eugene Sue
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A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
— Unknown Author
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
— Dean Koontz
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
— Horace
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In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there…
— Caroline Paul
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Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
— Alan Ayckbourn
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Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
— Willard Libby
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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a…
— Harry Frankfurt
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Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features…
— William Grant Bangerter
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...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But…
— Christiaan Huygens
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Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.
— Roger McDonald
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[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what…
— David Quammen
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I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it…
— Brand Blanshard
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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